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Via Foxbaltimore.com The Ravens celebrate with victory as they win Super Bowl 47 against the San Francisco 49ers. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says the parade will begin at City Hall at 10:45 Tuesday morning, head south on Commerce Street, continue to Pratt and Howard streets and end at M&T Bank Stadium. Even though the blackout shifted the momentum […]
New Orleans is in the midst of a violent murder spree unlike anything the city has seen before or since Hurricane Katrina. SEE ALSO: Man Stabbed At Airport, Gets On Flight Anyway According to an excellent piece in today’s New York Times, New Orleans’ murder rate in 2010 was 10 times the national average, “long before […]
NEW ORLEANS, LA.–A New Orleans rapper and seven others face criminal charges after they used real guns to simulate a robbery at a convenience store for music a video they were shooting. Danny Rogers, better known as “Lil Dee God’s Gift,” was acting out a mock robbery armed with real, unloaded guns when someone passing by […]
Six years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and its surrounding communities, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin says he regrets not calling a mandatory evacuation sooner in a candid sit-down interview with BET.com. According to Nagin, his outspokenness made him an easy target and a scapegoat in many situations. “I was […]
NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former police officers in the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. Former officer Robert Faulcon, Sgts. Robert Gisevius and Kenneth Bowen, Officer Anthony Villavaso and retired Sgt. Arthur Kaufman were convicted of charges stemming from the cover-up of the […]
NEW ORLEANS–The city of New Orleans is meeting its subsidized housing demand with a new plan. Instead of crowding families in large subsidized plots, the city is building and mixing subsidized homes among its unsubsidized residences. The city, which tore down all of its public housing developments in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, has opened […]
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Police Commander Eddie Selby resigned after being involved in allegations of inappropriate and racist comments. The Grio Reports: While giving instructions to his Special Operations Division this past Friday, Selby supposedly made some offensive comments about those attending the Essence festival, which is a predominately African-American event.While the investigation was […]
NEW ORLEANS – A Barack Obama impersonator was shown off the stage at the Republican Leadership Conference after his jokes hit a little too close to home. Reggie Brown’s rendition of President Obama started out as a hit before he began to turn his jokes onto some potential Republican candidates for the upcoming presidential elections. […]
DETROIT-Thousands of people are leaving Detroit, demoralizing the city. Partner Link: Nene Leakes and Star Jones drama The New York Times reports: It was the largest percentage drop in history for any American city with more than 100,000 residents, apart from the unique situation of New Orleans, where the population dropped by 29 percent after […]
